Why they think its okay to fly. And pen pals. Students are reaching out and providing comfort to isolated seniors the oldfashioned way. Something to be said about the oldfashioned way. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. He wants to play all sides of the equation. I was surprised by his answer, actually, because, to me, its not an acceptable answer. President trump at odds with the nations top Infectious Disease expert over when to safely reopen schools. The president views this as a political problem. He doesnt view this as a Public Health problem that hes got to solve. Another nearly 3 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week alone. The National Bureau of Economic Research predicting that 42 of the layoffs now could be permanent. According to nsa documents released by two, obama officials requested flynns identity be released. The fbi has served a search warrant on North Carolina senator richard burr. Theyre investigating his stock trades. Al
is over five hours. welcome everyone, i want to thank all of you for joining today s hearing. the committee will now come to order. after a brief opening remarks, members will receive testimony from our witnesses and then the hearing will be open to questions. good morning. i d like to make my opening statement and first i want to thank our house agriculture committee staff for pulling together this important and historic hearing. i want to thank each of my committee members and, of course, our witnesses. for appearing today before the committee. now, we are holding this very critical hearing to discuss cattle markets, concentration and the meatpacking industry. may i also remind everyone to mute yourselves and so we don t have noise interference. we are holding this critical hearing, very important, to discuss cattle markets, concentration in the meatpacking industry and allegations that the big four meatpackers have partaken in on practices that have driven down prices fo
Welcome, everyone. We may have just seen the worst day, so far, in the coronavirus pandemic. The world health organization, reporting more than a quarter of a million new infections, globally, in just 24 hours. The most ever in a single day. That averages out to more than 10,000 cases, every hour. The total is now beyond 14 million cases, according to johns hopkins. More than 600,000 people have died. The u. S. , still, by far, the worsthit country. New cases, on the rise in more than 30 states. And down in just one. A local official in florida says that people at the top are not sending the right message. When we talk about opening things, the governor and the president are all for it. They send us mandates about opening up schools. But when it comes to closing things, which is the tough medicine were asking people to follow. And making sacrifices, by Wearing Masks. Its likes their voices are nonexistent. Now, that was the mayor of miami beach in florida. A state where cases are skyro
Other side. That reality check from some of the most affected states is happening as the cdc director warns we should expect a second wave of Coronavirus Infections in the fall. And another one perhaps even sooner, that is if the reopening is done too quickly. Also, dr. Anthony fauci says that new cases, and this is good news, are flattening across the country, showing that social distancing measures are working. But the numbers still shocking. Yesterday, 2129 americans died of this disease. Lets begin this hour with our correspondent dan simon in san francisco. I just really, hearing from Governor Newsom got my head around what the future holds in a new normal. Thats right, poppy. I think were all sort of managing through this crisis day by day, and havent really thought, you know, too deeply about what things are going to look like a few month from now. What the governor is doing is managing expectations for what you can expect once society, once the economy opens up. And what he is
In the dark, releasing new details of their arrangements with the big companies, created a new and convoluted Emergency Response system, and sewed confusion and distrust in the states and among the people who need medical supplies. We have got a team of reporters on this nbc news exclusive and on the white house response. So we begin with our nbc news senior political analyst, jonathan allen. So jonathan, i got a call out of nowhere this weekend after your reporting came out from a source in the National Security world, in the government, saying that this lined up exactly with what they were saying. Well, im glad to hear that, katindicat katy. What youve got going on, katy, is a task force run by Vice President mike pence, who has seven subtask forces. Weve heard there are going to be new task forces. And essentially whats gone on is an effort to create some efficiencies that appears to have, in a lot of cases, created inefficiencies and confusion. There have been bidding wars, as youv